Combined fruit-canner and weighing-scales



(No Model.)

W. 0. THORNTON. Combined Fruit Ganner and Weighing Scales.

No. 229,204. lfyented June 22,1880.

WITNESS INVENTOR:

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.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIeE.

WVILLIAM O. THORNTON, OF CASTLE BOOK, MISSOURI.

COMBINED FRUlT-CANNER AND WEIGHING-SCALES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,204, dated June 22,1880.

Application filed May 1], 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM O. THORNTON, ofCastle Rock, Osage county, and State of Missouri, have invented a newand Improved Fruit-Oanner and Weighing-Scales, of which the following isa specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a device by means of whichthe weighing of canned fruit, vegetables, 850., can be conveniently andquickly effected.

' The invention consists of a hollow standard fixed upright on asuitable base and containing a vertically-adjustable bar, on the top ofwhich is fixed a yoke or arch in whose ends s prin gactuated verticalplungers are adjusted; and it consists, further, of a pair ofcounterscales arranged about the foot of the hollow standard andsupporting the revolving disks, upon which disks the cans are to restwhen being sealed or weighed.

ligure 1 is a front elevation of the device, partly in section. Fig. 2is a plan of the same on line 00 00, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is acrosssection on line y 3 Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

In the drawings, Arepresents the base of the device supporting theupright hollow standard 13, in the cavity of which is thevertically-adjusta e bar O, which bar O is held at any desired elevationby the thumb-screw D. On the t of the bar O is fixed the yoke or arch E,(h. 1 through whose socketed ends are passed the vertical plungers F F,that carry on their lower ends the disks a a and have on their upperends the knobs or handles 1) b, by means of which they may beconveniently raised.

\Nithin. the sockets c c of this arch or yoke E the spiral springsencircle the shanks of the plungers F F, and, bearing on the transversepins f f, force said plungers F F downward with a constant pressure.

G represents the scal Q, of which G is the platform, while the basethereof is identical with the base A of the device.

Resting upon the supports g g of the scales G, and pivoted thereon bytheir pivots h It, so that they may have a horizontal rotary movement,are the disks H H, provided at their peripheries with radial studs k, bymeans of (No model.)

which the disks H H may be conveniently turned.

In operating this device for canning, the bar O, with its attached archor yoke E, is adjusted and secured at the proper elevation by thethumb-screw D, the point of adjustment being contingent upon the heightof the can or cans to be operated upon.

The blocks m, that are pivoted on the base A, are swung beneath theshoulders of the sup ports 9 g, to hold said supports up, and therebyprevent pressure upon the scales G, and the filled can or cans(represented at L) are then placed on the revolving disks H and theplungers F F pressed on the tops or covers of said cans L by the spiralsprings d (I, so as to hold said covers firmly down. Then anyoverflowing of the liquid contents of the cans L is wiped from them andthe sealing-wax or other sealing substance or material is applied tosecure the cover to the can. The operator, by taking hold of the studs7t 7., turns said can L at will by turning the disk H. The pressure ofthe plunger F is continued until the sealing material has becomehardenedsufficiently about the joint of the can and cover, and is then removed.lVhile one can is remaining in position for its sealing-wax to coolanother can may be operated upon on the opposite side of the device.

WVhen it is desired to weigh a can and its contents, a suitable weightis placed on the arm n of the scales G, the can on one disk, H, andsuitable weights 011 the other disk, H, the blocks m being first removedfrom beneath the supports g g and the plungers F F being retraeted.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Pat ent 1. A combined fruit-eanner and weighingscales,constructed substantially as herein shown and described, consisting ofbase A, hollow standard B, vertically-adjustable bar 0, yoke E,spring-actuated plungers F F, scales G, and pivoted rotary disks H H, asset forth.

2. In a combined fruitcanner and scales, the adjustable bar O and yokeE, in combination, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a combined fruit-eanner and scales, the combination, with theadjustable bar O and sooketed yoke E, of the spring-actuated plunthescales G, substantially as herein shown and gers F I*, substantially asherein shown and described. described. 6. In a combined fruit-canner andscales, the

4. In a combined fruit-canner and scales, the combination, with thedisks H H and scales 5 pivoted rotary disks H H, substantially as G, ofthe supports 9 g and blocks mm, sub I 5 herein shown and described,whereby the cans stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

are supported and revolved as set forth. WILLIAM CLARK THORNTON.

5. In a combined fruit-canner and scales, the Witnesses: combination,with the standard B, adjustable AUGUSTUS KLEINSORGE, IO bar and yoke OE, and rotary disks H H, of MARTIN BODE.

